Eritrichium. | €. BORAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 165 
4. E. pygmeeum, Clarke; nearly stemless leaves elliptic, pedicels 4 in, 
appearing umbelled, nutlets ovoid nearly smooth.—Eritrichium sp. n. 16, Herb, 
Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
ALPINE SIKKIM; Momay, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Stems 0-3 in., annual, erect, densely clothed with spreading leaves, terminated by 
numerous subfascicled spreading pedicels. Leaves } in., sessile, subobtuse, patently 
villous. Calyx-lobes + in., narrowly oblong. Corolla not seen. Nutlets 3, in., with 
free apices, testa minutely reticulate and wrinkled ; carpophore very short. 
5. E. Munroi, Clarke; small, suberect, branched, leaves oblong lower 
spathulate, racemes numerous many-flowered, nutlets ovoid-oblong nearly 
smooth.—Eritrichium sp. n. 18, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
,ArPrNE Hmaraya, alt. 11-13,000 ft.; Kunawur, Munro, Kumaon, Strach. 4 
Winterb.; Sikkim, Lachen, J. D. H. 
. Stems 1-4 in. Leaves l—l in., patently villous. Racemes villous, dense in flower ; 
in fruit pedicels sometimes 4 in., upper ebracteate.  Calyz-lobes in flower minute, in 
fruit à in. or upwards, oblong-linear. Flowers hardly 4 in. diam.  Nuflets x in., 
minutely reticulate and wrinkled; carpophore very short.—The fruit is imperfect, 
and there may be more than one species mixed here. 
6. B. tibeticum, Clarke; lax, weak, diffuse, leaves elliptic mostly 
petioled, racemes elongate ebracteate, nutlets ovoid shining glabrous margins 
entire.— Eritrichium sp. n. 17, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Western Tiger; Ladakh, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Thomson. ` 
, "ootstock slender, annual? Stems 6-10 in., numerous, slender. Leaves } by $ 
1n., obtuse, spathulate, strigose. Racemes in fruit 6 in. ; pedicels $ in., a few lower 
from leaflike bracts. Calyx-lobes 3 in., ovate-oblong. , Flowers Lin. diam, Nutlets 
1s 1D. ; margin somewhat prominent. . "EN 
AR. minor; less strigose, stems 2-3 in., leaves 1-4 in. Eritrichium sp. n. 15, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 4 T.—Sikkim ; Phulloong, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. 
*** Nutlets conic-obovoid, margin strong fringed with divided hairs. 
..^. E. basifixum, Clarke; erect, leaves sessile broadly lanceolate softly 
ous, racemes dense bracteate, nutlets apparently basally attached, carpophore 
depressed hardly convex. Echinospermum sericeum, Benth. in Royle Ill. 306; 
DC. Prodr. x. i42, 
ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Gurwhal, alt. 13-15,000 ft. ; Royle, 
nce, Jaeschke, &e. 
Stems 3—7 in., solitary or few, erect, divided at the apex. Leaves 2 by i in., acute, 
lower densely tufted, upper distant. Racemes in fruit 13in.; pedicels 0-3 in. ; bracts 
in. Calyz-lobes in fruit i in., narrowly oblong. Flowers iin. diam. and upwards, 
ue, purpurescent. Nutlets à in., membranous, glabrous ; circular back within the 
margin minutely hairy.—Closely allied to E. villosum, in which the margins of the 
üutlets carry broad-based flattened lanceolate ciliate-serrate teeth. In the typical 
Eritrichiums the scar of the nutlets is sub-punctiform at the apex of a depressed cone 
9n the inner lower face; in E. villosum, DC. Prodr. x. 126 (Myosotis villosa, Ledeb. 
lo, Fl, Boss t. 215), this cone is less depressed; in E. basifirum it is elongate still 
More, so that the nutlets are attached apparently basally, nearly as in Lithospermee. 
16. ROCHELIA, Reichd. 
,. Annual or perennial, villous or hispid herbs. Leaves alternate. Racemes 
Simple or branched, bracteate. Flowers small, blue or white. Sepais 5 (in non- 
Indian Species 6-7), enlarged in fruit, linear or base auricled and sagittate. 
Corolla-tube cylindrie, throat with or without scales; lobes small, spreading. 
